Fast forward (seek forward) goes backwards

[Peter Jay Salzman]

Amarok 1.4.8 (KDE 3.5.8) on Debian/Linux testing.

I use a USB voice recorder to record college lectures.  It stores audio
files as wma which I pull onto my hard drive and listen to with Amarok.

I often need to scan backwards/forwards to listen to different parts of the
lecture.

The left arrow key scans backwards as it should, but unfortunately, the
right arrow key also scans backwards (maybe a little less than the left
arrow key does, but the right arrow key still scans backwards).

I went to Settings | Configure Shortcuts and made sure that "Seek Backward"
is "Left" and "Seek Forward" is "Right".  Yes the right arrow key still
scans backwards.

I really, really need a scan forward feature.  Is there any way to fix this
behavior?

Also, is it possible to configure the scanning feature to go back/forward by
the number of seconds of my choosing?  The current number of seconds is good
for music, but a little inconvenient for lectures when I just want to hear a
single sentence over again.  It would be nice to have this configurable.

Thanks!
Pete

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